Pentathlon - Spring 2013

The time for quarterly numbers has arrived yet again.

We began the Pentathlon last year to help measure progress in five popular exercises that are handy for a variety of sports conditioning, including obstacle racing. The five exercises are: push-ups, sit-ups, broad jump, timed mile and sit and reach.

Push-ups and sit-ups are max reps in 2 minutes. The jump can be done as many times as you want, but 3 times seems to be where we got our max. Initially we would resets very 60 days, but we have now changed that to quarterly testing.

Below are the results of the 2013 Spring Pentathlon for myself, my son and our buddy Dave. Next to our names are our ages at the time of testing. Next to the results are changes from the last Pentathlon, where applicable. Numbers in red are overall changes from the first event.

Kellan, mid broad jump.

Wade (39):
Push-ups - 60 (+3) (+11)
Sit-up - 60 (-3) (+20)
Broad Jump - 84.125" (+.125") (+3.125")
Mile - 7:36 (-:24) (-:54)
Sit & Reach - 0" (-1.625") (-1.5")


Kellan (13):
Push-ups - 59 (+12) (+4)
Sit-up - 65 (-2) (+17)
Broad Jump - 64.75" (+8.75") (+14.5")
Mile - 7:14 (-:39) (-2:16)
Sit & Reach - .25" (-.625") (-1.25")


Dave (33):
Push-ups - 30 (-10)
Sit-up - 57 (+6)
Broad Jump - 85.125" (-5.375")
Mile - 7:52 (+:21)
Sit & Reach - .5" (-1.75")



Notes:
1. The sit and reach is all over the place. We figure that's because we're doing it after our runs, and as we push our mile times, our muscles are getting tighter at the finish line. For the Summer test we will do Sit & Reach before the mile run to try and steady the numbers.

2. Dave is coming off a nasty ankle injury from late last year. We expect his numbers to improve drastically.

Have your own numbers? Feel free to share in the comments section. :)